Nintendo's Origins | Acquired

Nintendo's transformation from an 1889 playing card company to video game giant. Hiroshi Yamauchi's vision that created Mario, Pokemon, and gaming culture.

Nintendo's Origins | Acquired so Cloudflare URLs win cascade before parses and triggers font fetches --> back transcript • Season 12 | episode 3 Nintendo's Origins Ben: Welcome to season 12 episode 3 of Acquired, the podcast about great technology companies and the stories and playbooks behind them. I'm Ben Gilbert. David: I'm David Rosenthal. Ben: And we are your hosts. Video games are an absolutely enormous industry with a market size of over $100 billion of consumer spend every year. That makes it bigger than Hollywood and the music industry combined today in 2023. While we are all aware th

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